Morning Musume ’22 – “Dai・Jinsei Never Been Better!” The second song from Morning Musume ’22’s forthcoming 71st single is a bit of a disappointment for me for a number of reasons, but what makes it worse is that its formula is one that I’m usually a sucker for. Upbeat buoyant pop with a hopeful and cheery vibe that channels the...
Morning Musume ’22 – “Chu Chu Chu Bokura no Mirai” The title of this post is a short, sharp line from the song at hand, delivered with authority by Mei Yamazaki in the second verse. It’s also the reaction of a solid majority of a particular sub-section of the online H!P fandom to the song and its video. I’m not...
Juice=Juice – terzo Juice=Juice’s third album, terzo, continues the double-CD album-plus-singles-collection format established with their first two albums and copied by Angerme on Rinnetenshou ~ANGERME Past, Present & Future~ in 2019. It’s a formula that makes the best of H!P’s frugal release schedule and brings the best of both worlds into a single release, combining a proper new album with...
Sayuki – “Diamond” Former Juice=Juice utahime Sayuki Takagi has returned from her 14-month exile from the music industry with a new stage name and a new mission. Her stated mission is to provide a company where former idols can continue their careers unburdened by the rigid rules of the Japanese idol industry, rules which ended her membership in the Hello!...
ANGERME – “Aisubeki Beki Human Life” The third and final track from ANGERME’s soon to be released 30th single is live on YouTube, and it’s genki as fuck. “Aisubeki Beki Human Life” is pure upbeat fun in a way Anju hasn’t been since 2018’s “46okunen LOVE.” Unlike “Koi wa Accha Accha” or “Hakkiri Shiyou ze” there’s no overarching theme here...
ANGERME – “Hade ni Yacchai na!” The second track from ANGERME’s forthcoming single hit YouTube a couple of days ago, and we’re seeing a few trends developing. First, this is Anju’s third single in a row with a decidedly funk-pop track, which in and of itself is neither good nor bad. Of the three, I rank “Hade ni Yacchai na!”...
ANGERME – “Ai ・ Masho” Angerme’s 11 month release drought officially ends on May 11th with the arrival of the group’s 30th single, Ai・Mashou / Hade ni Yacchai na! / Aisubeki Beki Human Life, but the video for the lead track dropped on April 1. Up-Front didn’t fool around with this one, getting the “Fiesta! Fiesta!” team back together for...
Whew! That was a crazy March, huh? A new single, an unexpected tear-jerking remake and multiple graduation and new release announcements is a lot to pack into a single month — and we still have 11 days to go. It’s a lot to cover in one post, so I’ll try to be brief, but holy shit this is a lot...
In the Hello! Project’s typical feast-or-famine fashion, four H!P related clips have dropped on YouTube in the past five days: two official solo covers and two very unofficial radio rips. The dam is about to break on H!P content, and the first dribbles through the cracks are solo covers from Juice=Juice n00b Kisaki Ebata and Tsubaki Factory n00b Yuumi Kasai,...
Masaki Sato Announces Her Graduation From Morning Musume. The lack of content out of the Hello! Project since the release of Angerme’s 29th single back in June finally pushed me into one of my extended breaks last month. Even the afterglow of SoloFes! 2 was short lived for me, and while the announcement of a new Tsubaki Factory single piqued...
Hmmm… And now Momona is leading ME:I I suspect HP scraping the bottom of the barrel is why ambitious talents…
Well! Fukumura is graduating, but only at the END of this year - LOL!
Fukumura and her cahoots are doing everything they possibly can to prolong their idoling careers. There's a certain amount of…
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